Volunteer Newsletter

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

Lansing Correctional Facility depends upon the assistance of approximately 300 volunteers who work throughout the facility. People are able to volunteer for educational purposes to help offenders with life skills, help with different religious studies or to assist with sports and athletic events.  Volunteers also may assist staff with clerical duties. Volunteers may help weekly, bi-monthly or monthly.

Who can be a volunteer?

Volunteer Opportunities

To Become a Volunteer:

1. Volunteers complete a Volunteer Application Packet* and security check.
2. Volunteers receive approval from the volunteer group’s representative and Volunteer Services Coordinator.
3. Volunteers complete the Lansing Correctional Facility Volunteer Training and commit to five (5) visits to the facility per year.

*For more information or to request a Volunteer Packet contact:

Renda Craft (e-mail)
Volunteer Services Coordinator

Lansing Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 2
Lansing, KS 66043

(913) 727-3235 ext. 57246
Fax #: (913) 250-2755

“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.